Card Making Embossing & Die Cutting Buttefly Garden

I am still playing with my die cutting and embossing machines and today I return to one of my favourite themes, namely butterflies. I always seem to veer back to these marvelous creatures. I show you how to use two different butterflies to overlay each other. I also do quite a bit of inking again, before using the negatives from a previous project to incorporate in this one.

I make an embossed sheet from this garden design by Kaizer Crafts, running the embossing folder through my Go Cut & Emboss machine.

I then make a die cut butterfly with my Sizzix, using a die from X-Cut Dinky Dies. I also use the engative of three leaves, that I cut for a previous card.

I ink the embossed sheet with Rabger Archival Ink.

I make sure to ink the sides of the embossed sheet as well.

Then I ink the die-cut butterfly.

I cover the wet ink with embossing powder.

I shake the excess powder off and return it to the container. Then I melt the powder onto the butterfly with heat.

I fold a yellow sheet of A4 cardboard in half to form a card.

I then crop some red cardstock to fit under the negative leaves.

I glue around the leaves, as well as around the frame of the red cardstock with Tombow Glue.

This turns the piece of discardable negative into a lovely embellishment for my card.

I use double-sided tape to adhere the paper pieces to my card.

I play around with the layout before settling on this idea.

I bend the butterfly between my fingers to lift the wings.

I place a thin line of glue on the body of the smaller butterfly on the embossed paper.

I glue the die-cut butterfly to the embossed butterfly, even though they don't fit precisely. It is close enough to fool the eye into accepting it, especially as the top butterfly's wings are raised.

I then find these red sequins and glue them to the side of my card.

The completed card.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/wqUc4CJhL1Q

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